This week in Google alerts

James Wynn · 04 Nov 2011, 18:17 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:17:27 -0500
Subject: (urth) This week  in Google alerts
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> > So how does that explain the epithet Silver? It would seem Wolfe's
> >  Hound's (heh) explanation for "Silent Silk or Silver Silk" is 
> lacking by
> > 50% wouldn't you agree? Why did Wolfe even mention "Silver Silk"
> >  if he only meant the "silent" explantation to have significance?
>
>  On 11/4/2011 1:01 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> The significance of Silver is obvious, surely?  The full quote is:
> ****************************************************
> But Tartaros generally turns them black and speaks. Silk said he 
> didn't speak
> or make the window change at all, pretty often. He just looked on."
> ****************************************************
> In contrast to Tartaros, Silk leaves the windows the colour they are.  
> Which is described the first time we see one as "luminous grey".  
> 'Luminous Grey Silk' lacks both poetry and alliteration; thus 'Silver 
> Silk'.
>

Oh. I thought your method relied SOLELY on the text.  Now here you go 
and draw connections based on cryptic word-smithing to derive intent 
from the author. Based on your model, shouldn't we expect him to be 
called "Gray Silk"?  "graysilk" has a certain poetry does it not? Silver 
Silk sounds like a comic book super hero.

How does one cross the line between "drawing inferences from the text" 
and "extending the text in a way that annoys"?
Typically, the line is crossed when "he" does it, instead of "me".

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